Thank You Quotes - Page 10

• You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.

  Jean Harris

  Gratitude, Humility, Order

  Jean Harris (1993). “Marking Time”, Zebra Books

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• Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back.

  Maxfield Parrish

  Thinking, Color, Use

  Maxfield Parrish, Alma Gilbert-Smith, Joyce Stoner, Trust for Museum Exhibitions (2005). “Maxfield Parrish: master of make-believe”, Philip Wilson Publishers

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• My mom passed away at 41 from diabetes. And I'm 42, thank you. I didn't want to do that to my son. So any time I was at the gym, that thing that helped me do that last squat was my son calling some other woman mommy. And that would just give me that extra oomph to do that last squat. I want to be around for him.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Mom, Son, Giving

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• I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.

  Roberto Duran

  Heart, America, Champion

  "Duran, Whitaker Head Boxing Hall of Fame" By John Kekis, www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2007.

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• I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Grateful, Mean, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would love to meet Kelly Clarkson and if I get the chance to I would tell her thank you so much for the inspiration.

  Thia Megia

  Inspiration, Chance, Ifs

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• I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Feelings, Obsessed, Better Now

  "There Is Only One Issue In America" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2011.

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• The gift without the giver is rare.

  James Russell Lowell

  Generosity, Giving, Thanks

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• A boy's will is the wind's will.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Children, Son, Boys

  'My Lost Youth' (1858)

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• Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.

  Gordon Cooper

  Father, Able, Privilege

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• The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Atmosphere, Comfort, Hospitality

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.804, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Pain, Want, Hospitality

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.14

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• It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.

  Hugh Miller

  Hospitality, Excellent, Circumstances

  Hugh Miller, William Samuel Symonds (1858). “The Cruise of the Betsy; Or, a Summer Ramble Among the Fossilferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist; Or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossilferous Deposits of Scotland. [Edited by W. S. Symonds.]”, p.133

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• Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Honor, Bed

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• For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.

  Richard Hovey

  Song, Weather, Together

  "A Stein Song" l. 5 (1896)

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• One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Relationship, Giving, Generosity

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• I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

  Jean Ingelow

  Life, Prayer, Thank God

  Jean Ingelow (1873). “Off the Skelligs: A Novel”, p.571

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• But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Friendship, Happiness

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.423

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• Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.

  Susannah McCorkle

  Beautiful, Song, Feelings

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• The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Appreciation, Men

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• I would challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like the green grass that made them feel good, the friendly conversation they had with somebody on an alevator. You start to realize how rich you are.

  Jim Carrey

  Life, Stupid, Grateful

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• When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.

  Dean Rusk

  Thank God, Goes On, Next

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• A table-full of welcome!

  William Shakespeare

  Tables, Welcome, Hospitality

  William Shakespeare, R.A. Foakes (1962). “Arden Shakespeare: The Comedy Of Errors: Second Series”, p.42, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Welcome as the flowers in May.

  Walter Scott

  Flower, May, Welcome

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 867-68, 1922.

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• There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.

  Washington Irving

  Heart, Ease, Hospitality

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.288

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